carriage

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A wheeled vehicle, especially a four-wheeled horse-drawn passenger vehicle, often of an elegant design.
• noun Chiefly British A railroad passenger car.
• noun A baby carriage.
• noun A wheeled support or frame for carrying a heavy object, such as a cannon.
• noun A moving part of a machine for holding or shifting another part.
• noun The act or process of transporting or carrying.
• noun The cost of or the charge for transporting.
• noun The manner of holding and moving one's head and body; bearing. synonym: posture.
• noun Archaic Management; administration.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In saddlery, a long handle fitted at one end with a knob and at the other with a branch for receiving a small circular tool: used for ornamenting leather.
• noun The act of carrying, bearing, transporting, or conveying.
• noun Specifically
• noun The carrying of goods, persons, etc.; the business of transportation.
• noun That which is carried; goods transported; load; burden; freight; baggage.
• noun In Scots law, the service of a horse and cart.
• noun The price or expense of carrying.
• noun That which is used for carrying or transporting, especially on or over a solid surface.
• noun A wheeled stand or support: commonly in composition: as, a gun-carriage, a block-carriage for mortars, etc. See gun-carriage.
• noun Any part of a machine which carries another part: as, the carriage of a mule-spinner, a shafting, a type-writer, etc.
• noun That part of the frame of the old hand printing-press which supported and carried the form of types on the bed (or coffin, as it was then called), in its movement to and from the platen or impressing surface. Hand-presses are now made without carriage-frames, and with ribs running in grooved rails.
• noun In carpentry, the timber-frame which supports the steps of a wooden stair.
• noun (f ) The straps or bands by which the sword was hung from the waist-belt in the sixteenth century. See hanger.
• noun The act of carrying or taking from an enemy; conquest; acquisition.
• noun Tax; imposition.
• noun The manner of carrying or managing one's person; hence, behavior; conduct; deportment; manners.
• noun The act or manner of carrying out business; management.
• noun Bearing; import; tenor; meaning.
• noun In equity practice, control or conduct.
• noun A drain; a furrow cut for the purpose of carrying off water.
• noun A customary dry measure used for lime, consisting of 64 heaped bushels.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete That which is carried; burden; baggage.
• noun The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.
• noun The price or expense of carrying.
• noun That which carries of conveys
• noun A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.
• noun A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, .
• noun A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.
• noun A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported.
• noun The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.
• noun The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.
• noun a horse kept for drawing a carriage.
• noun (Arch.) a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It is intended as a shelter for those who alight from vehicles at the door; -- sometimes erroneously called in the United States porte-cochère.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
• noun UK A rail car, esp. designed for the conveyance of passengers.
• noun A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
• noun archaic One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
• noun The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
• noun US, New England A shopping cart.
• noun UK A stroller; a baby carriage.